{"id":25170,"date":"2025-01-01T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T00:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=25170"},"modified":"2024-12-03T12:39:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T12:39:24","slug":"rage-of-the-dragons-neo-switch-ps4-ps5-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/01\/rage-of-the-dragons-neo-switch-ps4-ps5-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Rage of the Dragons NEO (Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019ve seen many a NEO GEO arcade cabinet in my time, but I don\u2019t ever remember seeing this game in any one of them.\u00a0 Supposedly, Rage of the Dragons was going to be a sequel to another NEO GEO Double Dragon one-on-one fighter that I reviewed about ten years ago<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 But they didn\u2019t have the rights to Double Dragon but they made it anyway.\u00a0 I mean, it does have two red and blue characters that look the same named Billy and Jimmy.\u00a0 And another character is a big fat guy who looks similar to Abobo and his name is almost the same too.\u00a0 Not sure how they got away with that, but now you can play this one-on-one fighter on all current consoles and PC (reviewed on Switch here).<\/p>\n

Anyway, the game plays like any other fighter.\u00a0 Pick your character and use joystick movements and button combinations to pull off moves to whittle down your opponent\u2019s energy and whoever is left standing, wins.\u00a0 You can switch out to another character as you fight, but you have to wait for a meter to charge up before you can do it again.\u00a0 The game has several different modes.\u00a0 Arcade mode lets you pick characters and battle the others in a row until you beat the boss.\u00a0 Dragon\u2019s Challenges sets special rules for you to follow and you unlock more as you complete them.\u00a0 Battle another player in a single match in Versus, and practice moves in Training.\u00a0 And of course, you can fight online, too.\u00a0 You can also view options and credits, listen to music in a jukebox, and see your achievements.\u00a0 My problem with this game is that it\u2019s too darn hard.\u00a0 I had it set on the easiest difficulty and still got my butt beat.\u00a0 Plus I think I like the earlier Double Dragon fighter better.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rage of the Dragons NEO is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Fantasy Violence, Mild Blood, and Suggestive Themes.\u00a0 It\u2019s a fighting game, so of course there\u2019s violence.\u00a0 But all the characters look cartoony and anime-like.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t notice any blood, but some of the lady fighters wear somewhat skimpy outfits.\u00a0 Younger gamers may find it too difficult, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve seen many a NEO GEO arcade cabinet in my time, but I don\u2019t ever remember seeing this game in any one of them.\u00a0 Supposedly, Rage of the Dragons was going to be a sequel to another NEO GEO Double Dragon one-on-one fighter that I reviewed about ten years ago.\u00a0 But they didn\u2019t have the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25172,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25170\/revisions\/25172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}